Amiga 4000 no boot 8Gb CF

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It's Workbench 3.1 and SCALOS setup on top of it.

I'm not familiar with what SCALOS does or does not do, but 3.1 natively does not include support for hard drives greater than 4GB.  You'll have to install one of the various patches / patch methods to support hd's greater than 4GB if you intend to stick with 3.1.

[arttu80]

I'm not familiar with what SCALOS does or does not do, but 3.1 natively does not include support for hard drives greater than 4GB.  You'll have to install one of the various patches / patch methods to support hd's greater than 4GB if you intend to stick with 3.1.

But this very same card working flawlessly on my 030/KS3.1 A1200. So I don't think it's missing any patches. Only difference I see, is IDE-CF adapter, which ofcourse is different in 1200 (using smaller 2.5" IDE standard).

If this problem is really in scsi.device file, so why don't I see separate files for 4000 available anywhere?

Actually it's beyound me, why nobody with 4000 ever encoutered this same problem and had it solved...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

If this problem is really in scsi.device file, so why don't I see separate files for 4000 available anywhere?

Lots of info out here, but here's a good thread that might help you:  http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=32256

Actually it's beyound me, why nobody with 4000 ever encoutered this same problem and had it solved...

1000's of folks out there are using cards larger than 4GB in their A4000's.  If the only difference is the adapter, maybe try a different adapter?

[Thomas]

If this problem is really in scsi.device file, so why don't I see separate files for 4000 available anywhere?

No version of scsi.device is available anywhere. Scsi.device is part of the OS, it's illegal to distribute it outside of the OS.

The only version of scsi.device for OS 3.1 which is legally available is there: http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=37
You see that there are four seperate files in the archive, for four different Amiga models.

[arttu80]

Lots of info out here, but here's a good thread that might help you:  http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=32256

This line revealed where I could get darn scsi.device file for A4000!!! ;

"Open up Dopus and in the left window go to the “MyFiles/LargeHD/128GB Support/SCSI_IDE_43_24/Patched” drawer and in the right window go to the “Devs” drawer."

So thank you thank you so much for helping me out in right direction, now she boots fine with this 16Gb card!

Unbelievable, this file was here on this card all the time, but I couldn't find it before. So indeed it was just what I really needed.

Now got that extra motivation to tune her up. Finally will tinker with my newly bought Indivision card to get some hi-res Worbench pleasure!